Figures
Fishermen
Childhood's Sails
Parenthood
Large-scale sculptures
Animals
Biography
Contemporary French artist Marine de Soos is based in Paris and creates poetic sculptures in bronze, flooded with emotion. She derives her inspiration from the many memories of her extensive travels. She shares with us, through her artwork, all that she has both felt and appreciated about the things she has seen and moments she has lived.
Marine de Soos was born in Paris in 1967, spent several years of her youth in Africa and keeps, to this day, myriad memories which unquestionably influence her bronze artwork. A keen introspection seems to orient her art, forever searching the great continent of her upbringing.
Back in Paris Marine de Soos initially tackled the world of marketing before entirely focusing on the art of sculpture in 1991 when she trained with American sculptor Jonathan Hirschfeld. Since 1999, Marine de Soos regularly exhibits her monumental and outdoor sculpture in France and abroad.
From Africa to the Orient, Marine de Soos relates true stories and conveys moments of pure joy, rehashed from souvenirs gathered from here and there : the position of a hand, a foot, the tilt of a head… Whatever the starting image an emotion is unequivocally connected : ” I can only work when I am feeling emotional” says the artist who admits not having “a vision of what [she is] going to create.” Her only guide… the emotion and, ultimately, an invitation to take a rare poetic journey which thrusts the viewer into a contemplative state.
CV
Education
- Training with Jonathan Hirschfeld
Solo exhibitions
- 2025: Solo Show, Maison des Quais (Île d’Yeu, France)
- 2024: Solo Show, Estades Gallery (Lyon, France)
- 2023: Conversations, Solo Show, Les Fondettes (Indre-et-Loire, France)
- 2023: Solo Show, Estelle Lebas Gallery, La Passerelle (Haubourdin, France)
- 2022: Solo Show, Maison des Quais (Île d’Yeu, France)
- 2021: Solo Show, Michel Estades Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2021: Solo Show, Les Dominicaines et Les Jardins de la ville (Pont-L’Évêque, France)
- 2020: Solo Show, Toulouse-Lauwers Gallery (Saumur, France)
- 2020: Solo Show, Ernest-Cognacq Museum, Gardens (Saint-Martin-de-Ré, France)
- 2020: Solo Show, Michel Estades Gallery (Lyon, France)
- 2020: Solo Show, The Convent of the Minimes (Mane, France)
- 2019: Pièces au Château, solo Show, Commarin Castle (Bourgogne, France)
- 2019: Solo Show, Maison des Quais (Île d’Yeu, France)
- 2019: Solo Show, Minimes Convent (Mane-en-Provence, France)
- 2018: Les 10 ans du Jardins du Soleil, solo Show, Château de Villandry (Loire-Valley, France)
- 2018: Solo Show, Hôtel de Sers (Paris, France)
- 2018: Solo Show, Le Couvent des Minimes (Mane-en-Provence, France)
- 2017: Artimoine, solo Show, Château de Lassay sur Croisne (Loire, France)
- 2017: Solo Show, Le Couvent des Minimes (Mane-en-Provence, France)
- 2017: Solo Show, L’Oréal (Clichy, France)
- 2016: Solo Show, Maison des Quais (Île d’Yeu, France)
- 2016: Solo Show, Le Couvent des Minimes (Mane-en-Provence, France)
- 2015: Solo Show, Domaine des Crayères (Reims, France)
- 2015: Solo Show, Le Couvent des Minimes (Mane-en-Provence, France)
- 2013: Solo Show, Maison des Quais (Île d’Yeu, France)
- 2013: Solo Show, Primo Piano, Le Bon Marché (Paris, France)
- 2012: Solo Show, Montségur Finance (Paris, France)
- 2011: Solo Show, Emeraude Gallery (Le Touquet, France)
- 2010: Solo Show, Maison des Quais (Île d’Yeu, France)
- 2010: Des œuvres au Château, solo Show, Château de Chailly sur Armançon (Burgundy, France)
- 2009: Solo Show, Emeraude Gallery (Le Touquet, France)
- 2009: Solo Show, Hôtel Le Chabichou (Courchevel, France)
- 2008: Solo Show, Oddo (Paris, France)
- 2008: Solo Show, Emeraude Gallery (Le Touquet, France)
- 2006: Solo Show, Emeraude Gallery (Le Touquet, France)
- 2004: Solo Show, Ofivalmo (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
Group exhibitions
- 2025: Group Show, Gilbert Dufois Gallery (Senlis, France)
- 2025: Group Show, Estelle Lebas Gallery, Moderne Art Fair (Paris, France)
- 2023: Group Show, Nicolas Auvray Gallery / L’Atelier Gallery (New York, USA)
- 2023: Biennale of Bois-Guilbert, Group Show (Bois-Guilbert, France)
- 2023: Group Show, Philippe Heim Gallery, BRAFA (Brussels, Belgium)
- 2022: Group Show, Antica Namur Art Fair (Namur, Belgium)
- 2022: Group Show, Moderne Art Fair (Paris, France)
- 2022: Group Show, Bonisson Art Center (Rognes, France)
- 2022: Group Show, K+Y Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2022: Group Show, Hégoa Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2022: Group Show, Philippe Heim Gallery, PAD Paris Art + Design (Paris, France)
- 2022: Group Show, Estelle Lebas Gallery, Lille Art Up (Lille, France)
- 2021: Biennale de Montreux, Group Show (Montreux, Switzerland)
- 2021: Group Show, Hôtel du Castellet (Le Castellet, France)
- 2021: Les Rendez-vous d’Art contemporain vendômois, Group Show (Artins, France)
- 2020: Group Show, Philippe Heim Gallery, BRAFA (Brussels, Belgium)
- 2020: Paradis nomades, Group Show, Hégoa Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2019: Group Show, Philippe Heim Gallery, PAD Paris Art + Design (Paris, France)
- 2019: 11° Sculpture Biennial at Sculptures Garden, Group Show (Bois-Guilbert, France)
- 2019: Les Rendez-Vous d’Art Contemporain Vendômois, Group Show, Château de La Possonnière (Loir-et-Cher, France)
- 2019: Group Show, OFI Asset Management (Paris, France)
- 2019: Group Show, Château de la Messardière (Saint-Tropez, France)
- 2018: Group Show, Hôtel du Castellet (Le Castellet, France)
- 2018: Marche doucement sur la terre, Group Show, Hégoa Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2018: Jardins en Fête, Group Show, Jardins en Art Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2017: Biennal of Sologne, Group Show (Chaumont-sur-Tharonne, France)
- 2017: Parcours Saint-Germain, Group Show, Gardens of l’Hôtel des Marronniers (Paris, France)
- 2017: Group Show, Estelle Lebas Gallery, Art Up Lille (Lille, France)
- 2016: Jardins d’ailleurs, 3rd edition, Group Show, Jardins en Art (Paris, France)
- 2016: Sand & Stone, Group Show, Hégoa Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2016: Group Show, Galerie Toulouse Lauwers (Nantes, France)
- 2015: Le cercle a du talent, Group Show, Le Cercle de l’Union (Lyon, France)
- 2015: 9ème Biennale de Sculpture, Le Jardin des Sculptures, Group Show (Bois-Guilbert, France)
- 2015: Voyage pour un autre monde, Group Show, Fort du Vert Galant (Wambrechies, France)
- 2014: Âme animale, Group Show, Hégoa Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2014: Group Show, Natixis (Paris, France)
- 2014: Group Show, 49 Gallery (Saumur, France)
- 2014: Group Show, St.Art (Strasbourg, France)
- 2013: Biennal of the Jardin des Sculptures, Group Show, Château de Bois-Guilbert (Bois-Guilbert, France)
- 2013: Group Show, Emeraude Gallery (Le Touquet, France)
- 2013: Group Show, Art Monaco (Monaco, Monaco)
- 2012: Group Show, Art Gent (Ghent, Belgium)
- 2012: Group Show, Glineur Gallery (Saint-Martin-de-Ré, France)
- 2012: Group Show, Emeraude Gallery (Le Touquet, France)
- 2012: Group Show, Barnes (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
- 2012: Group Show, Pont Neuf Gallery, Artlandowski (Paris, France)
- 2011: Group Show, Lille Art Fair (Lille, France)
- 2010: Group Show, Residence of the Counts of Champagne, Taittinger (Reims, France)
- 2010: Group Show, Gilbert Dufois Gallery (Senlis, France)
- 2009: Group Show, François Giraudeau Gallery (Les Portes-en-Ré, France)
- 2006: Group Show, Cultural Center, Fatehpur & French Embassy (New Delhi, India)
- 2006: Group Show, Hors Série Gallery (Lille and Brussels, France/Belgium)
- 2005: Group Show, Bertin-Toublanc Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2003: Group Show, Ebène Macassar (Paris, France)
- 2002: Group Show, Ebène Macassar (Paris, France)
- 2001: Group Show, Martine Moisan Gallery (Paris, France)
Awards & Residencies
- 2023 : Commissioned by Vinci Immobilier as part of the “1 building, 1 work” programme
- 2019 : Official commission by Charles Carroll, INSTITUT DE FRANCE, Paris and Saint-Omer, France
- 2018 : Alain Brugnon Sculpture Prize, Fondation Taylon
Articles
Marine de Soos : Conversations – Sculpture Open Air Exhibition
Eight bronze sculptures by Marine de Soos have been positioned in public spaces in the city of Fondettes, near Tours, France. Arrayed from Halle de...
Contemporary statues: The views of three women artists
These days, the word statue evokes monumental and solemn sculptures found in public squares, immobile celebration of heroes whose names are often...
Introducing Marine de Soos
From her childhood spent in Africa, Marine de Soos kept images and an open-mindedness, which still fuels her artistic work. Like shamanic objects...
